Theory of ReligionZone Books, 1989 - 126 páginas Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No other work of Bataille’s, and perhaps no other work anywhere since Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has managed to draw so incisively the links between man’s religious and economic activities. |
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Georges Bataille. CHAPTER I The Military Order From a Balance of Resources and Expenditures to the Accumulation of Forces with a View to Their Growth Human sacrifice testifies at the same time to an excess ... military 65 The Military Order.
... military order organizes the yield of wars into slaves , that of slaves into labor . It makes conquest a methodical operation , for the growth of an empire . Positing of an Empire as the Universal Thing The empire submits from the start ...
... military order , the available resources of the world of things were allocated , in principle , to the growth of an empire projecting beyond the closed communities toward the universal . But military activity only aims to give the order ...
Contenido
Where This Book Is Situated | 9 |
Animality | 17 |
TWO RELIGION WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON | 63 |
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